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Comparing the Employment-Output Elasticities of Expatriates and Nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Behar, Alberto - 2015
We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …
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Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations
Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2007
Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777769
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R&D, Innovation, and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis
Ulku, Hulya - 2006
This paper investigates the main postulations of the Ramp;D based growth models that innovation is created in the Ramp;D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of Ramp;D. The analysis employs various panel data...
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Technological and Economic Decoupling in the Cyber Era
Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Goyal, Rishi - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward digital services. Meanwhile, the race for technological and economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from the worst global recession since the Great Depression....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252019
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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use it : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the it Revolution Across Countries
Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - 2021
This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317887
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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment
Brussevich, Mariya - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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Real Wage, Labor Productivity, and Employment Trends in South Africa : A Closer Look
Klein, Nir - 2012
The paper looks at the dynamics of employment in South Africa and examines the factors that contributed to the job … productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107076
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Immigration and Employment : Substitute Versus Complementary Labor in Selected African Countries
viseth, Arina - 2021
the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-SaharanAfrica. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …) employment allocation betweeninformal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The directionof …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315124
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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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